JEROME LENK has served as Director of Music and Liturgy and principal organist for Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco for over 37 years, where he administers a music program of three choirs, conducts the Basilica Choir in major concerts each year, as well as coordinating the Basilica concert series. He is active as a recitalist and accompanist and maintains a private coaching studio, performing and conducting the Basilica Choir in California, Mexico, and Italy. Accompanying credits includes appearances with the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Western Opera Theatre, San Francisco Girl’s Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, CappellaSF, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, San Jose Symphony, Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Concert Chorale, San Francisco Lyric Chorus, and the Choral Project. 

Mr. Lenk is also an established vocal coach and conductor;  credits include Valley Concert Chorale, Opera on Tap, Opera San Jose, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, San Jose State University, and The University of Iowa. He has performed solo recitals at the Oakland Cathedral as well as San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and has been a recitalist at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In 2017 he was the featured organist for the Lou Harrison centennial concerts with the Other Minds Festival of New Music, performing two of Harrison’s solo organ works.

Mr. Lenk is a published composer and actively composes and arranges primarily liturgical music for the Basilica.

He can be heard on recording with the Basilica Choir, the San Francisco Concert Chorale, the San Francisco Lyric Chorus, The Choral Project of San Jose, and on a solo recording of organ music recorded at Mission Dolores. Additionally he maintains a Youtube channel presenting a variety of selections from both the organ and piano repertoire, as well as collaborations with Bay Area artists.